On the Rules Do Not Apply, The Men We Reaped, and other memoirs that “push back against the idea that there is a ‘normal’ way to grieve.” | The Seattle Review of Books

On a “self-taught artist and immigrant” (John James Audubon) who lived the classic American dream (illustrating an $8 million book about birds). | The LA Times

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